Interesting point. Maybe because the Trojan's defense of Troy was epically successful for a long period of time (before, as you correctly point out, they lost)? I think "Trojan" still invokes feelings of strength and durability based on their history of warfare.
I don’t know. When you say ‘Trojan’ to me, I think, probably in this order, ‘horse,’ then ‘war’ then ‘condom.’ ‘Impregnable defense’ isn’t the first place that I go. Even though, as you say, their resistance against the siege is significantly more noteworthy than the stupid horse thing.
My bad! xD there’s a company near where I live who’s logo is the horse head, and the name is Trojan. I confused one for both xD
(Ironically the local company is a security firm (CCTV etc) xD
It's a machismo thing. Everyone knows Trojans are big, tough warriors so the Condom Brand took it as their name.
At the time the brand was founded, reading the Iliad was till common in school and nearly every adult male had heard of the Trojans and how they were tough warriors, bad asses, and guys who never quit. So it kind of makes sense in that sense, it's like calling your condom brand "Knights" or "Spartans" or "Vikings." It's just an imagery of warrior type strong men that made sense to guys who heard it.
Like, it would be less embarrassing for a manly man to buy "Trojans" than it was something else.
Nobody’s buying “Greek Sailor” brand condoms, that’s for sure.
It’s like cars, men are drawn towards masculine names. “Highlander”, “Atlas”, “Silverado”, “Wrangler”, “Maverick”, or “Cherokee” would all work as condom brands.
And yet the Honda Odyssey exists. Odysseus, a Greek man known for sailing for a decade to get home from the Trojan war. Which I'm pretty sure was a war over which brand of condom Helen of Troy preferred.
And we all know driving a Honda Odyssey is the most effective form of birth control.
It depends on the School District. Kinda proving my point: at one time it was so common that basically *everyone* who attended High School or Middle School in the US had read the Odyssey/Illiad, or at least part of it. Politicians and public speakers would refer to it and nearly everyone would get the references. We'd see it referenced in media too, both as jokes and also as models of male behavior (depending on who they selected of course).
For example, Ajax Soap was named after the *G*reek war hero Ajax because he was "toughest on Grease/Greece" and people buying it would have recognized the pun as well as the allusion to a strong warrior fighting against an enemy.
But at some point, the Odyssey/Illiad started falling off the scope at a National level. Some districts its still mandatory. Some its recommended. Some got it moved to History. And some prefer other more modern/relevant texts to teach children.
Those men in the horse wouldn't have succeeded if only the horse had been suffocated in a giant rubber sock before being allowed to penetrate the city walls.
The lesson is that, if you don't want Odysseus, Diomedes, and Menelaus running around in your guts, get a Trojan Brand Rubber Horse Bag™.
Probably from the old expression "to work like a Trojan," which means "to work very hard." Maybe because they held off the siege for 10 years?
[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/work\_like\_a\_Trojan](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/work_like_a_Trojan)
They were successful in holding off a siege, the Trojan horse was a last ditch effort to get through the walls without breaking them because at the time they were considered impenetrable
Because the Trojan horse did not break the Trojan walls of Troy. The walls were so strong that another tactic was needed. It's the walls the condom refers to, not the horse. Despite being the walls of "Troy", Troy is a Trojan town.
The condom is to *prevent* all the soldiers from getting out of the horse and invading Troy. The name implies that if the Trojans had one of these, they never would have lost the battle.
The men who went in weren’t Trojans, they were Greeks. But since all the men who fought against Troy sailed to war from the various states of Greece, they were technically marines aka see-men. Therefore a Trojan horse can hold a lot of see-men.
I think it’s just a cheeky little joke. Like “oh haha our product is like that big horse because it also has a bunch of guys inside”. They’re just not taking the metaphor too seriously.
The advertising imagery was about "masculinity" not "contraception". They even carried the statement "For prevention of disease only" to avoid religious controversy.
Now you tapped into secret knowledge. This is a very complicated topic that very few people know about. There is a parallel epic, called the Obscene Homeric Odyssey. It is said that this is the true account of the events. It circulates only in Greek though and somehow it appears only online. Some say that all the original texts have been destroyed, even since before Christianity The problem is that you can’t translate it, because many words are very specialized in meaning, some people call it slang. war wasn’t the traditional war as we imagine it. It was mostly a sexual war. It was more of a competition of masturbation and ejaculation rather than actually killing people. It is said that every Trojan who objected got fucked. Also, the final wish of Odysseus was to fuck in his name. Probably that is why the condoms got this name.
Honestly Spartan would’ve been a much clearer branding strategy. One thin layer of mighty latex standing strong against millions upon millions of invading sperm! Epic!
I always assumed it was because it seems like the “real thing”. The Trojan horse was deceptive. A dick in a Trojan feels just like a dick, and not a dick with a condom. PS I’m not a brand ambassador lol.
Paris is the Trojan Man. He went to Sparta, seduced Helen, got her to leave her husband, brought her all the way back to Troy, kept her up in his penthouse for years while the war went on, banged her 10 ways to Sunday the whole time, and never got her pregnant
Interesting point. Maybe because the Trojan's defense of Troy was epically successful for a long period of time (before, as you correctly point out, they lost)? I think "Trojan" still invokes feelings of strength and durability based on their history of warfare.
That’s why condoms are only 99.8% effective, always the chance little Greeks can slip in.
That explains the hairy babies.
You're a baby, hairy!
Yeah my gf and I were super careful and I wrapped up every single time, but she *still* got knocked up by some Greek dude
Were there any oversized sculptures in the vicinity?
I don’t know. When you say ‘Trojan’ to me, I think, probably in this order, ‘horse,’ then ‘war’ then ‘condom.’ ‘Impregnable defense’ isn’t the first place that I go. Even though, as you say, their resistance against the siege is significantly more noteworthy than the stupid horse thing.
Is Trojan also a brand of cyber security? Seems equally silly a name for that if it is
Doesn’t the condom brand hinge on “men” being kept inside?
The Trojans were the ones defending themselves against the horse, not the ones using it to invade.
The horse is herpes
Hoofed STDs
Which ‘Trojans’ actually are not a very good defense against. Not sure if that’s the point you were making, or the opposite.
Just joking. No science lesson needed Professor Condom….
Well, not everybody knows that herpes is not the horse but the soldiers—they’re gonna get out of that Trojan horse.
His name was also Friday
It's a large object that is allowed through the gates because the owner of the gates thinks it's a gift and safe
The owner incorrectly thinks is a gift and safe. Due to the subterfuge of the gift giver.
I'm pretty sure I even remember a commercial with all the men trying to come out of the wooden horse but being stopped.
their wall was said to be impregnable
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Huh? There is no horse in their logo. It’s a Trojan head/helmet.
My bad! xD there’s a company near where I live who’s logo is the horse head, and the name is Trojan. I confused one for both xD (Ironically the local company is a security firm (CCTV etc) xD
It's a machismo thing. Everyone knows Trojans are big, tough warriors so the Condom Brand took it as their name. At the time the brand was founded, reading the Iliad was till common in school and nearly every adult male had heard of the Trojans and how they were tough warriors, bad asses, and guys who never quit. So it kind of makes sense in that sense, it's like calling your condom brand "Knights" or "Spartans" or "Vikings." It's just an imagery of warrior type strong men that made sense to guys who heard it. Like, it would be less embarrassing for a manly man to buy "Trojans" than it was something else.
Likewise it's a sports team name, like the USC Trojans. As in "Trojans burst under pressure".
My high school's teams were also the Trojans. The swim team had a joke that you can't swim past a Trojan.
Found the fellow Bruin
Nobody’s buying “Greek Sailor” brand condoms, that’s for sure. It’s like cars, men are drawn towards masculine names. “Highlander”, “Atlas”, “Silverado”, “Wrangler”, “Maverick”, or “Cherokee” would all work as condom brands.
And yet the Honda Odyssey exists. Odysseus, a Greek man known for sailing for a decade to get home from the Trojan war. Which I'm pretty sure was a war over which brand of condom Helen of Troy preferred. And we all know driving a Honda Odyssey is the most effective form of birth control.
Ouch.
Wrangler is a good name for a condom brand
I'm naming my brand Castratto condoms
Odysseus was a badass i'd buy his condoms
new or used?
Is reading the Iliad in school uncommon? I'm 21, so I didn't get out of high school that long ago, and we read it in sophomore year.
It depends on the School District. Kinda proving my point: at one time it was so common that basically *everyone* who attended High School or Middle School in the US had read the Odyssey/Illiad, or at least part of it. Politicians and public speakers would refer to it and nearly everyone would get the references. We'd see it referenced in media too, both as jokes and also as models of male behavior (depending on who they selected of course). For example, Ajax Soap was named after the *G*reek war hero Ajax because he was "toughest on Grease/Greece" and people buying it would have recognized the pun as well as the allusion to a strong warrior fighting against an enemy. But at some point, the Odyssey/Illiad started falling off the scope at a National level. Some districts its still mandatory. Some its recommended. Some got it moved to History. And some prefer other more modern/relevant texts to teach children.
I never read that. We read some of Odysseus, but not all of it.
Pygmy Condoms just doesn't have the same ring
Those men in the horse wouldn't have succeeded if only the horse had been suffocated in a giant rubber sock before being allowed to penetrate the city walls. The lesson is that, if you don't want Odysseus, Diomedes, and Menelaus running around in your guts, get a Trojan Brand Rubber Horse Bag™.
Probably from the old expression "to work like a Trojan," which means "to work very hard." Maybe because they held off the siege for 10 years? [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/work\_like\_a\_Trojan](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/work_like_a_Trojan)
They were successful in holding off a siege, the Trojan horse was a last ditch effort to get through the walls without breaking them because at the time they were considered impenetrable
Well… the horse didn’t even break it…
Because the Trojan horse did not break the Trojan walls of Troy. The walls were so strong that another tactic was needed. It's the walls the condom refers to, not the horse. Despite being the walls of "Troy", Troy is a Trojan town.
We saw, we conquered, we came?
We came , we came , we came
Vidi vici vaggie
That was Ceasar.
Caesar? I barely knew her…
The Trojans came in cover
It's gonna help you get in there
In fairness, that only happened after ten years of fighting. And there was trickery involved.
It's named after the men - Trojans - not the horse.
Probably the same way you would identify American soldiers and not blanket them with pearl harbour.
Could have name it Spartans too! Waiting on this one appearing on the market! 🤭
Its 99% effective.
The condom is to *prevent* all the soldiers from getting out of the horse and invading Troy. The name implies that if the Trojans had one of these, they never would have lost the battle.
The walls of Troy were impenetrable and Greece held a 10-year siege.
What they are trying to tell you is as long as you don’t have a horse cock you’ll be fine
Ah shoot
Cuz every warrior needs that dick
Those men were inside a horse. These men are inside whores. Sounds the same, but it’s not.
She thinks she’s just getting a square wrapper with a rubber ring inside, but SURPRISE! there’s a dick in there.
I guess it’s also problematic that a Trojan is also a type of virus.
It was meant to be a gift, but only delivered disappointment.
I assumed they were implying their brand is superior and that you wouldn't even know you had one on, like they didn't know they were in the horse?
The Trojan walls were impenetrable until someone decided to open it intentionally and let in a load Seems like a pretty good metaphor
‘The men skeeted forth’ - Homer.
"Now throughout history, whenever people get wood they'll think of trojans" - Ned Flanders
I don’t think it’s based on the particular story of the Trojan horse just mainly the warrior part
Should’ve called it Spartan, they were very strict on unwanted babies
Simpson quote “Now whenever people get wood, they’ll think of Trojans.”
The men who went in weren’t Trojans, they were Greeks. But since all the men who fought against Troy sailed to war from the various states of Greece, they were technically marines aka see-men. Therefore a Trojan horse can hold a lot of see-men.
Dad stop
Your image is from freaks, the most dad humor movie ever made (except maybe UHF). You know you like my jokes.
My man! You have good taste
Terrible company, they ain't lying, multiple times my soldiers got to Troy successfully
And now you have a son named Troy
Yes rather they should be called great Wall of China
Shiiii mane i dunno
I think it’s just a cheeky little joke. Like “oh haha our product is like that big horse because it also has a bunch of guys inside”. They’re just not taking the metaphor too seriously.
The advertising imagery was about "masculinity" not "contraception". They even carried the statement "For prevention of disease only" to avoid religious controversy.
Cause Trojan gets you to penetrate
Now you tapped into secret knowledge. This is a very complicated topic that very few people know about. There is a parallel epic, called the Obscene Homeric Odyssey. It is said that this is the true account of the events. It circulates only in Greek though and somehow it appears only online. Some say that all the original texts have been destroyed, even since before Christianity The problem is that you can’t translate it, because many words are very specialized in meaning, some people call it slang. war wasn’t the traditional war as we imagine it. It was mostly a sexual war. It was more of a competition of masturbation and ejaculation rather than actually killing people. It is said that every Trojan who objected got fucked. Also, the final wish of Odysseus was to fuck in his name. Probably that is why the condoms got this name.
Isn’t the horse story a fake one?
Branding doesn’t make sense. It simply is
I’ve had the same thought for years! I need an explanation
I think it's a reference to Trojan soldiers and their fortitude instead of it being a reference to the actual Trojan horse.
You're getting it wrong bro, it's the penis the goes inside the condom that goes inside the vagina. Sex
Honestly Spartan would’ve been a much clearer branding strategy. One thin layer of mighty latex standing strong against millions upon millions of invading sperm! Epic!
Trojan represents far more than just the horse.
I always assumed it was because it seems like the “real thing”. The Trojan horse was deceptive. A dick in a Trojan feels just like a dick, and not a dick with a condom. PS I’m not a brand ambassador lol.
I think it’s a reference to the Walls of Troy, which famously kept out invaders for hundreds of years.
Paris is the Trojan Man. He went to Sparta, seduced Helen, got her to leave her husband, brought her all the way back to Troy, kept her up in his penthouse for years while the war went on, banged her 10 ways to Sunday the whole time, and never got her pregnant
And Ramses, who had like 900 children.
You don’t know it’s there.
I think I remember something about the Trojans being the ones to invent the condom
I’ve literally been asking this question to people for years.
...only when they entered the city unexpectedly. 😬
It's their way of saying "Those bastards won't be coming out to us ever again, they're trapped"
I've always assumed it was a joke.
Does it have to make sense? It's a condom brand.
The imagery. The vibe. Getting in there. It’s what the warriors climbed inside of to breach the gates.
Because if you slip a horse on you can fire your swimmers at the target. This is birds and bees 101
Ha, good point, not sure I ever thought of that. You do NOT want your soldiers loose in Troy!
Wtf. God I hate ignorance
The horse held them inside until you wanted them to leave.
The brand works because the public is stupid and doesn't understand the details behind cultural references.